Sunday, September 4, 2011

Google Fusion Tables in QGIS

Since version 1.9 (currently still in trunk) OGRsupports Google Fusion Tables. There are instructions online available that show how to upload Shapefiles to Google Fusion Tables using OGR e.g. a video from the Google I/O conference (starting at 26:30 with an introduction to GDAL/OGR).
Since QGIS has an OGR provider I wanted to display a Google Fusion table (with spatial data) in QGIS. It can be done quite easily using a Virtual Format layer that looks as follows: